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The Good Soldier
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- And Leonora assured him that, if the minutest fragment of the real situation ever got through to my senses, she would wreak upon him the most terrible vengeance that she could think of.
Part 2minutest = smallest
- They wrote about minute things such as the teething of Edward and of the earlier daughters or the best way to repair a Jacob's ladder in a stocking.
Part 3minute = insignificant
- I don't know that a very minute study of their progress towards complete disunion is necessary.
Part 3minute = with careful attention to detail
- One remembers points that one has forgotten and one explains them all the more minutely since one recognizes that one has forgotten to mention them in their proper places and that one may have given, by omitting them, a false impression.
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- So when she got back to Branshaw she started, after less than a month, to worry him about the minutest items of his expenditure.
Part 4 *minutest = smallest
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- —Well, there was Florence: I believe that for the twelve years her life lasted, after the storm that seemed irretrievably to have weakened her heart—I don't believe that for one minute she was out of my sight, except when she was safely tucked up in bed and I should be downstairs, talking to some good fellow or other in some lounge or smoking-room or taking my final turn with a cigar before going to bed.†
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- They'll hunt languidly and dress languidly and dine languidly and work without enthusiasm and find it a bore to carry on three minutes' conversation about anything whatever and yet, when the other sort of conversation begins, they'll laugh and wake up and throw themselves about in their chairs.†
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- Now it happens that fifty minutes away from Nauheim, by a good train, is the ancient city of M——, upon a great pinnacle of basalt, girt with a triple road running sideways up its shoulder like a scarf.†
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- She never left us, indeed, for a minute that night, except just to run up to Mrs Maidan's room to beg her pardon and to beg her also to let Edward take her very markedly out into the gardens that night.†
Part 1
- And that I appeared to fix up in two minutes or so.†
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- She chafed it for a long minute between her finger and thumb, then she threw it over the coping.†
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- For five minutes, then, I entertained the possibility that Leonora might be jealous; but there was never another flicker in that flame-like personality.†
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- I was out of that room and down the ladder in under half a minute.†
Part 2
- For we were not ten minutes out from Sandy Hook before Florence went down into her cabin and her heart took her.†
Part 2
- He continued to look at Leonora for a long minute—with a sort of heavy contempt.†
Part 3
- He looked at her in turn for a long, balancing minute.†
Part 3
- It got on Leonora's nerves; she figured Edward, for the rest of that trip, jumping overboard every ten minutes.†
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- Dinner was twenty minutes late or the Ashburnhams would not have been alone together.†
Part 3
- He had no minute's rest; his bowels turned round and round within him: his tongue was perpetually dry and it seemed to him that the breath between his teeth was like air from a pest-house.†
Part 3
- He did not hunger to pass every minute of the time at Nauheirn beside the child's recumbent form; he went out to polo matches; he played auction bridge in the evenings; he was cheerful and bright.†
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- Then they heard his voice: "Give me Glasgow...Glasgow, in Scotland...I want the number of a man called White, of Simrock Park, Glasgow...Edward White, Simrock Park, Glasgow...ten minutes...at this time of night..."†
Part 4
- Edward was lounging in his chair smoking a cigar and he said nothing for quite five minutes.†
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- The train was five minutes late and they imagined that that was because it was market-day at Swindon or wherever the train came from.†
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- In twenty minutes or so I shall walk down to the village, beneath my own oaks, alongside my own clumps of gorse, to get the American mail.†
Part 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(minute as in: minute size) small, exceptionally small, or insignificant
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(2)
(minute as in: minute description) detailed (including even small considerations); and/or careful (done with care)
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(3)
(minutes as in: keep the minutes) a written record of what happened at a meeting
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(4)
(meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus) Much more commonly, minute and minutes refer to a period of time lasting 60 seconds.
Less commonly, they refer to a measurement of angle where 60 minutes make up a single degree, and where a right angle has 90 degrees and a circle has 360 degrees.